👨🏿‍🚀 Entering Tech #016: Five careers in tech to explore

Some trivia before we begin. Answers are at the bottom of this newsletter. 

💡 Scrum is a management framework that focuses on teamwork, and quick iteration for well-defined goals. Think of it as a continuous moving engine that fixes everything on the go. 🚀

If you’re interested in helping different people and teams work together, this might be the perfect no-code job for you. You don’t need to learn how to code here, but you will need to work with those who do. 

• Skills needed: Communication, leadership and decision-making, teamwork.
• Salary range: ₦310,000 – ₦480,000 per month || KSH75,000 – KSH200,000 per month.

Unlike all the other roles listed here, DevOps engineers do write code. They oversee the creation, development, and updates of software created or used by any company. Simply put, DevOps engineers are the product managers of the engineering team.

• Skills needed: Tenacity, teamwork, research.
• Salary range: ₦250,000 – ₦406,000 per month || KSH128,000 – KSH350,000 per month.

Animators bring coloured pictures—or drawings, for the simple folks—to life. Animators don’t just create cartoons that people enjoy, they also help create ads and other marketing assets that help companies tell their stories. 

• Skills needed: Imagination, storytelling, creativity.
• Salary range: ₦100,000 – ₦238,000 per month || KSH45,000 – KSH50,000 per month.

It’s all social media managers. They’re the brains and fingers behind the screen. Social media managers present brands to people using content creation to endear them to different products. They are the digital voices and community builders that amplify the work of businesses and individuals. 

They go by other names too, such as digital marketer, brand manager, audience engagement manager, and community manager.

🌟The good news? Social media management is one of the few tech roles you can learn and do with just your mobile phone. Here’s a complete Entering Tech edition on a how to become a social media manager.

• Skills needed: Content creation, simple design skills, copywriting, and storytelling.
• Salary range: ₦85,000 – ₦420,000 per month || GH₵700 – GH₵3,000 per month || KSH25,000–KSH351,000 per month.

Customer success involves forecasting hurdles a customer might come across or questions they might ask while using your product, and constantly finding solutions to these problems and answers to the questions. 

The goal of this is to keep your customers happy, and if you can achieve this, you’ll be able to retain most of them and also boost customer loyalty.

• Skills needed: Patience, conflict resolution, time management, foresight.
• Salary range: Nigeria: ₦58,000 — ₦175,000 per month || KSH115,000 — KSH150,000 per month.